Legal Opinion
Raymond Washington v. Clayton Penwell
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 3, 1983No. 81-3211, 82-3449PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
This is a case of the Emperor’s new clothes.
The State of Oregon, chafing under an increasingly vexatious decree consented to by its prison officials, realized it was playing an unwarranted role in a legal fiction. It asks us to agree that what enmeshes it is a fallacy and thereby to dispel the illusion.
The saga began when indigent Oregon prisoners sued state officials, alleging that inadequate legal facilities denied their constitutional right of access to the courts. In 1978, District Judge Belloni entered a consent decree requiring accessible prison law…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Edelman v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Bounds v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States v. Swift & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
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3Cited by54 opinions
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- United States v. Yair HoltzmanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- Lelsz v. KavanaghCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1987
- United States v. OregonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
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